Circle Symbolism and Consciousness Part 5
April 21, 2008 – 5:19 pm
Emanation
The Consequent Subject
Until now I’ve only considered the primal subject and its emanations in the singular. I haven’t yet described the nature of the consequent subject - the subject when seen as clothed in the manifestations of its emanations or in the manifestations of other subjects. But how can the primal subject also be many subjects? This again is due to the peculiar nature of the relationship between the primal subject and its manifestations in that each phase of its manifestations stands isolated from the living primal subject and is visible in every part. Further, every such part is simultaneously a unique perspective and a unique living subject with its own history abstracted and felt as a single propagation from within the entire spectrum of emanating transmissions.
The result is the primal subject through its manifestations becomes many clothed subjects and many points of view. But each point of view now finds that it is fixed, not rigidly but through relationship only, into the spectrum of its manifested but still emanating experience. Each clothed subject no longer simply experiences what it is emanating but also what other subjects are emanating.
The nature of the interaction of the clothed subject, its own emanations and the emanations of other clothed subjects is that they mutually interpenetrate and also constrain each other depending on their phased oscillations. These phased oscillations may reinforce or negate each other. They also continue to emanate with their transformations being experienced as spectrums of varying qualities and effects.
Objects
From the above description we may see that a universe has arisen but it’s still only an inner universe. It’s a self-consistent universe that remembers its source and recognizes its genesis even as it marvels at its unfolding nature. Such a universe hasn’t become objective in the normal sense of the word. But what are objects?
What we can say about objects is that in contrast to emanations they are fixed relative to their dimensions; they have definite attributes, forms, and laws of interaction. The fundamental nature of objects is that they’re completely constrained in 3D space in 6 directions, they are endlessly conglomerate - that is complex and interwoven in their parts, and that their parts are defined by space as well as by patterns of force.
Objects when the emanations of various clothed subjects radiate as energy rays creating both slope and angular momentum which results in different directions and bands of energy. These energies extend simultaneously as rays and spirals in circular motions which either sync with or negate similar emanations from other subjects. When synced and reinforced they gain in energy relative to their environment. When negated they appear to create regions empty of structure and force. These apparently empty regions are really regions of equilibrium between forces such that their net forces appear to be nil. As these energies continue to propagate they form different dimensions based on complexity and constraints. These continue to get more and more dense and complex.
A clothed subject as opposed to a primal subject experiences itself at the confluence of emanations of many beings. Besides its own emanations it experiences the emanations of all other beings which in turn manifest the content or objects of its world. It uses the objectified emanations of many beings by which to interact with and clothe itself. So besides perceiving the emanations of many other clothed subjects the clothed subject also encounters their objects in its world and uses some of these to clothe itself.
Objects in the world are not alive unless they’re functioning as perspectives for manifested subjects. In this sense bodies are intermediate objects that can act as points of perception and activity for the manifesting subject. Bodies are able to act in this way because in their cellular makeup they have something undetermined, undefined, unconstrained, something flexible and to a limited degree chaotic, which life as energetic emanations can to some extent influence for a while.
Space and Matter
One of the most important of these transformations is the differentiation into space and matter. Space and matter are mutually arising phenomena that manifest as the emanations of a higher order reality. Space and matter literally arise when higher order energy emanations separate from each other. The difference is expressed as angular momentum resulting in the coagulation or densification of energy into conglomerate and generally globular forms of movement.
Differentiations in energy emanations literally result in the simultaneous creation of particulate forms of matter and their complement called space. Space and particles naturally arise as part of one process through curvatures or separations of a higher level force.
In esoteric alchemy this general process resulting in simultaneous condensation/rarefaction was called coagula. The reverse process or the loss of differentiation was in esoteric alchemy called solve. But I’d like to bring to the general reader’s attention that my usage here doesn’t conform to the contemporary translations of the alchemical terms. As they’re defined here coagula et solve occur in every transformation, the only difference being the desired direction of the operation and the consciousness of the subject.